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The Return of Big Audio Dynamite

Jeff Slate, Examiner.com, 2 February 2009

IT'S HARD TO believe, but it's been 25 years since I found myself in a grimey club called The World in Alphabet City to see Mick Jones' new band, Big Audio Dynamite.  BAD's debut album This Is Big Audio Dynamite had just come out, but word had not yet hit the streets that this was one you had to have.  In fact, I don't even recall the show being a sellout.

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